Decarbonising the Future via Ambient-Temperature e-Fuel Synthesis

Overview

We are committed to revolutionizing sustainable energy solutions through cutting-edge technology and proprietary innovations. By specializing in the research, development, and production of critical materials and core components for renewable electricity and CO2-to-eFuels conversion, we strive to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and create efficient, clean energy solutions.

  • Decarbonising the Future via Ambient-Temperature e-Fuel Synthesis
Commercialisation opportunities
technology licensing agreement
Problem addressed

Today's e-fuel production requires extreme temperatures, high pressures, ultra-pure feedstock, and expensive green hydrogen—making it costly and impractical for widespread deployment. Existing processes cannot directly handle impurity-rich waste gases from biogas plants, landfills, or factory flue stacks, demanding expensive pre-treatment that inflates costs and limits scalability. Current e-fuel output meets less than 1% of global demand.

Innovation
  • Ultra-low metal loading catalysts,reducing catalyst costs to less than 1/300th of conventional precious-metal alternatives.
  • A proprietary flow-channel electrolyser performs in-situ purification and initial chemical conversion of raw biogas or industrial flue gas in a single device, eliminating the need for costly upstream gas cleaning and enabling direct use of low-quality waste carbon sources.
  • A custom plasma reactor converts intermediate gases into green methanol at ambient conditions, achieving over 95% liquid-product purity.
Key impact
  • Operating at ambient temperature and pressure while eliminating external green hydrogen purchases, the system significantly lowers both capital and operating costs compared to conventional Fischer-Tropsch synthesis.
  • The team holds proprietary technology spanning catalysts, membrane electrode assemblies, flow-channel electrolysers, plasma reactors, and integrated system design—ensuring maximum control over performance, cost, and supply chain while creating strong barriers to competition.
  • The containerised all-in-one system requires no civil construction, enabling rapid installation at distributed carbon sources such as biogas plants, landfills, and factories, with fully automated cloud-based monitoring for unmanned, low-maintenance operation.
Award
  • Gold Medal at the “2025 Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions”
Application
  • Ultra-low metal loading high-performance catalyst
  • high-purity syngas
  • Green methanol
  • sustainable aviation fuel

Patent

  • US Provisional Patent 63/587,837
  • PCT/CN2024/103140
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)

Founded in 1963, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is a forward-looking comprehensive research university with a global vision and a mission to combine tradition with modernity, and to bring together China and the West. CUHK teachers and students hail from all around the world. Four Nobel laureates are associated with the university, and it is the only tertiary institution in Hong Kong with recipients of the Nobel Prize, Turing Award, Fields Medal and Veblen Prize sitting as faculty in residence. CUHK graduates are connected worldwide through an extensive alumni network. CUHK undertakes a wide range of research programmes in many subject areas, and strives to provide scope for all academic staff to undertake consultancy and collaborative projects with industry. 

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